Abstract

Where does it bring us, today, the question-God, which phenomenology has not ceased to discuss? What we can say is that this is a controversial issue, which has divided both who has tried to practise in first person phenomenology and who has carefully read Husserl’s works on the topic. If the question-God can be repeated today, it must be done according to Husserl’s gesture that starts any opening of new fields of knowledge, that is the reduction and the epoché. It is practising these two gestures that it is possible to discover what can be reduced and what remains as irreducible. Does the question-God remain irreducible? Yes, on condition that, through the practice of the epoché, the sense itself of transcendence is called into question again in order to identify any givenness of God. This givenness of God, through the epoché, is discovered in the possibility of the free suspension. This is a gesture “of” God that also the human being can execute while discovering that the possibility that what is given is freely suspended to allow further considerations on other freedoms is more originating than every givenness. Thus, another manner of transcendence could manifest itself, that is a manner of transcendence not thought as “presence” to be suspended, but as discovery of the completely free root of what is given. This manifestation of transcendence would allow to repeat phenomenologically the question-God.